THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

THE FUTURIST

ROBERT SCOBLE

AUTHOR, THE AGE OF CONTEXT

THE INNOVATOR

ANTHONY THOMSON

CO-FOUNDER, METRO BANK & ATOM BANK

THE DISRUPTOR

MIKE BROWN

REGIONAL GENERAL MANAGER, UBER

Meet the industry leaders

THE INNOVATORS AND DISRUPTORS WHO ARE TRANSFORMING THE PAYMENTS LANDSCAPE

Kate Ancketill, Managing Director, G.D.R. Creative Intelligence

Kate Ancketill is the brains and driving force behind GDR Creative Intelligence, a global consultancy focused on innovation and emerging trends in retail, leisure and hospitality. She has worked with an impressive roster of major global brands, including: Microsoft, P&G, InterContinental...

Aditya Gupta is a seasoned Consumer Banking and Payments professional with over 15 years of experience across diverse business domains and markets. His career spans business leadership positions for Credit cards, Digital banking, E-business, Consumer lending, and Insurance in Southeast Asia, India...

Shannon Kalayanamitr, Regional Chief Marketing Officer, WhatsNew Asia

Shannon is currently Chief People Officer at Moxy Pte, an integrated End-to-End eCommerce platform, rockin’ and rollin’ ready for Southeast Asia expansion. Her most recent projects at Altus included Building a HD Digital Terrestrial Television Station for Dr. Prasert...

Sachin Marya, President, Franchise India

Sachin is an avid speaker, having chaired World Franchise Forum at the young age of 25, today he has addressed more than 500 industry forums with over 200,000 attendees directly touched. He is regularly invited at various national and international forums like World Retail Congress, London ;...

Carlos Silva, Co-Founder, President and COO, Seedrs

Carlos Silva is President and co-founder of Seedrs, Europe's leading and fastest-growing online platform for investing in startups and the world's first regulated crowdinvestment platform.Carlos holds a Master in Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and an MBA from the...

Dr Chandra Segaran Senkodu has 24 years of experience in the Public Transport Fare Collection System. This has included designing, testing, commissioning and maintaining the bus ticketing system, sales machines and central clearing system. In 1990, he was involved in launching of the first...

Gordon Nugent, Head of Online / Multi Channel, Harvey Norman

Gordon Nugent has over fifteen years in sales/retail management including Harvey Norman franchises and General Manager for the retail sales team of Australia's largest IT distribution company. Gordon launched both the eCommerce and the Photo Online sites for Harvey Norman and now manages the...

Dante T. Fuentes, Chief Compliance Officer, Security Bank Corporation

Dante is the Group Chief Compliance Officer of Security Bank Corporation, as well as the President, Association of Bank Compliance Officers and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He is a resource person, speaker and lecturer on Fraud, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering...

Deborah Ko, Behavioral Psychologist, Reading Room

Deborah Ko received her PhD in psychology with a specialization in the cultural psychology and the psychology of Internet behavior; her dissertation addressed cultural differences in information sharing in face-to-face and computer mediated communication. She entered into the world of digital as...

Michele Ferrario, Managing Director, Zalora

As Managing Director of ZALORA Group, Michele Ferrario is responsible for overall coordination and leadership of the Group, and holds a direct responsibility for logistics, supply chain, eProduction and customer service.Michele started his career at McKinsey & Company, where he spent four years ...

Erik Wilgenhof, Chief Compliance Officer, ItBit

Erik started his banking career in 1996 in Amsterdam. He was part of the team that set up the first ABN AMRO payments website and helped set up the Corporate Sustainability function. In 2004 he was stationed in Singapore to lead a newly formed team of anti-money laundering analysts. Erik worked in ...

Mr Loon has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, in many areas ranging from technology (custom development, operating systems and systems administration, storage administration, networks and network administration, databases and database administration and business intelligence) to...

Pierre Poignant, Chief Operating Officer, Lazada Group

Pierre Poignant, is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Lazada Group. He assumed the role on July 2012. As the COO of the Lazada Group, Pierre is responsible for Customer Service, Supply Chain, Logistics, Last Mile Operations & Content Production across the six operating countries –...

Ramon Vicente V. de Vera II, Transaction Banking Product Head and Business Development Director, UnionBank Of The Philippines

Arvie de Vera is currently the Transaction Banking Product Head and Business Development Director at Unionbank of the Philippines. He carries with him over 17 years extensive work experience covering banking, telecommunications, and media industries.He completed his MBA at the Asian Institute of...

Todd Kurie, Vice President Marketing, Redmart Ltd

Todd is a frequent speaker at retail, ecommerce and startup-related events throughout South East Asia. Todd Kurie has over twenty years of broad marketing experience, the last ten focused on consumer ecommerce services. He is currently VP Marketing for Singapore-based online grocery...

Neal Cross, Chief Innovation Officer, DBS Bank

Neal Cross is Managing Director and Chief Innovation Officer of DBS Bank and a strong advocate for innovation thinking and culture.Cross is driving the bank’s innovation agenda regionally, as DBS moves to shape the future of banking, to enhance customer experience and better engage customers in the ...

Prashant Gokarn, Chief Strategy and Planning Officer, Indosat

Prashant was appointed as Chief Strategy & Planning Officer at Indosat company in July 2011, previously held various positions including Head of 3G Business, Reliance Communications, India from May 2010 to June 2011, Head of Corporate Strategy Reliance Communication, India from April 2008 to...

David Lee, Head of eCommerce, Electrolux Major Appliance Asia Pacific

David has over 20 years of experience in the digital industry, covering all aspects of sales, marketing and business development; in the area of product, merchandising, pricing, marcom, PR, alliances, channel, e-loyalty, etc.
David is currently the Head of eTailer & Social Commerce-Dell Asia...

Rocky Scopelliti is Telstra’s thought leader and industry expert in the banking, finance and insurance industry. He is also a non-executive director on the board of Community First Credit Union - Sydney’s largest credit union.Rocky has more than 20 years of senior management experience in the...

Jason has a rich and varied background in all things digital and currently heads the Global E-commerce function for Millennium & Copthorne. He had previously started up and headed the E-commerce business of Eu Yan Sang, a leading healthcare company in Asia. He had also launched the...

Parin Songpracha, Vice President, Thai e-Commerce Association

Parin is an e-Commerce and Omni-channel expert from the largest retailer in Thailand. Parin founded an e-Commerce business for 7-Eleven in 2008 under the domain name www.ShopAt7.com. He started it from scratch until the business is profitable. At present, he is in charge of the e-Commerce...

Sanjoy Sen is Managing Director, Retail Banking Asia Pacific, for ANZ. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for ANZ’s Retail Banking Business across 21 countries in Asia Pacific. Bringing deep multi-market experience and knowledge along with significant leadership attributes to this role, Sanjoy...

Nishant Kapoor, Founder & CEO, Life Project

Nishant has over 10 years of experience in e-commerce, of which 6 years is with startups. He worked in online travel in Europe from 2003-2006, after which he ran operations for a wine startup in India which he exited in 2011. He subsequently founded Life Project Limited in Hong Kong, a family of ...

Tana Pothikamjorn, Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Banking, Siam Commercial Bank

Tana Pothikamjorn currently serves as Head of Digital Banking at Siam Commercial Bank. He is responsible for driving the digitization of products and services through key initiatives like SCB Easy online banking and UP2ME mobile payments. Tana is a Silicon Valley veteran having spent his previous...

Oliver Segovia, CEO, AVA Online Group

Oliver is the founder & CEO of AVA Online Group, an e-commerce company in Southeast Asia, and a Director of the Segovia Group, a 40-year old family investment group with interests in real estate, hospitality, and technology. AVA is an online retail platform for design brands, including its own...

Pawoot Pongvitayapanu, Managing Director, TARAD

Pawoot Pongvitayapanu (Pom) is an online entrepreneur, E-Commerce and Online media business leader. He graduated from 2 master degree in Internet & E-Commerce at ABAC University and Executive MBA from SASIN Business School with Kellogg School of Management USA. He accumulated his professional...

Pankaj Batra is Chief Marketing Officer for Pizza Hut Delivery, Carry out & Express channels of business in Asia with over 1600 units across 10 countries. Pankaj also heads Public Relations and is a member of Yum Brand’s Global Digital Council. Pankaj has over 20 years experience in Brand ...

Ronan Hurley, Chief Operating Officer, Luxola

As Chief Operating Officer of Luxola, Ronan is responsible for the day to day management of Luxola and is directly responsible for Luxola’s logistics and customer service. Ronan joined Luxola over 2 years ago as CFO & COO and has overseen Luxola’s rapid growth in becoming South East Asia’s...